Can We Trust Social Capital

By Joel Sobel. 2002

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Microfoundations of Social Capital (2012, neutral): “However, this literature has been challenged on the grounds that it is unclear what survey measures such as the trust question actually measure (see e.g. Sobel 2002, Durlauf 2002, Beugelsdijk 2006).”
Social Capital, Collective Action, and Adaptation to Climate Change (2003, background): “This quasi-private social capital is an attribute of an individual but one that cannot be evaluated without knowledge of the society in which the individual operates (Sobel 2002).”
What Have We Learned About Generalized Trust, If Anything? (2008, background): “For reviews partly overlapping the present one, see Sobel (2002), Welch et al. (2005), or Hardin (2006, ch. 3).”
A Survey of Economic Theories and Field Evidence on Pro-Social Behavior (2006, neutral): “ 3 Institutional Environment For pro‐social behavior, the institutional environment in which people decide to contribute to public goods is crucial (for example, see Ostrom 2000; Sobel 2002: 146‒149).”
A City-Wide Experiment on Trust Discrimination (2013, neutral): “(for a critical review see, Sobel, 2002).”
An Overview of Social Networks and Economic Applications (2011, background): “For more discussion of potential sources of clustering, see Watts (1999), Jackson and Rogers (2005), and Carayol and Roux (2003).”
Trust, voluntary cooperation, and socio-economic background: survey and experimental evidence (2004, background): “For this reason, economists have become interested in trust and " social capital " as determinants of successful cooperation and, hence, good economic prospects (Knack and Keefer, 1997; La Porta et al., 1997; Zak and Knack, 2001; Bowles and Gintis, 2002; Sobel, 2002).”
Social Capital and Growth (2003, neutral): “2See Sobel (2002).”
War and local collective action in Sierra Leone (2009, background): “A broader definition of institutionsmight include the social equilibrium reached by individual rational actors, including what some call social capital (Sobel, 2002).”
Factors Affecting Bloggers' Knowledge Sharing: An Investigation Across Gender (2011, background): “Memberships in groups and networks can affect both men and women [98].”